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James Welsh Pepper was born in Philadelphia in 1853, and died in the same city on July 28, 1919. He was an American music publisher and musical instrument maker. [1]In 1876, Pepper founded a publishing house in his home city which printed music tutorial books and a magazine called Musical Times, which ceased production in 1912.
WDIA went on the air June 7, 1947, [3] from studios on Union Avenue. The owners, John Pepper and Bert Ferguson, were both white, and the format was a mix of country and western and light pop, [4] as well as "homemaker shows", network shows and block programming that included soap operas and classical music.
Jacob Narverud (born 1986, in Meriden, Kansas) is an American composer and conductor best known for his choral music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is often ranked among the top-selling and most widely-performed choral composers in the United States.
Memphis. WGKX – 105.9 – Country; WKIM – 98.9 – News/talk; ... Nash FM — national country music branding used by many Cumulus stations since 2013; References
WHBQ-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Imagicomm Communications.The station's studios are located on South Highland Street (near the campus of the University of Memphis) in East Memphis, and its transmitter is located on Raleigh-LaGrange Road on the city's northeast side.
Memphis' most significant musical claims to fame are as "Home of the Blues" and "Birthplace of Rock and Roll". The African-American composer, W.C. Handy, is said to have written the first commercially successful blues song, "St. Louis Blues", in a bar on Beale Street in 1912. [11] Handy resided in Memphis from 1909 through 1917. [11]
Channel 30 began broadcasting as WMKW-TV on April 18, 1983. Owned by a consortium of TVX Broadcast Group and local investors including Kemmons Wilson, it was the second independent station in the market behind channel 24, then WPTY-TV. It was the original Memphis affiliate of Fox from 1986 to 1990. However, after TVX sold the station to MT ...
Pepper Sound Studios was an early syndicator of radio station jingles and began sometime in 1957. It began as a record company created by businessman John Pepper and songwriter Floyd Huddleston. Huddleston based the company on the model of Capitol Records and even brought in Johnny Mercer as a consultant.